Sony Corporation

Hideyuki Kito

Takeshi Nogami

Naoki Komai

Mitsuru Taguchi

Toshiaki Hasegawa

Koichi Ikeda

Masakazu Muroyama

Masanaga Fukasawa

Katsumi Ando

A semiconductor device capable of suppressing diffusion of copper at an interface between a copper wire and a cap film to enhance an electromigration resistance to ensure reliability of the copper wire, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises an insulating film () formed on a substrate (), a concave portion () (for example, a groove) formed in the insulating film, a conductive layer () embedded in the concave portion through a barrier layer (), and a cobalt tungsten phosphorus coating () to connect with the barrier layer on the side of the conductive layer and to coat the conductive layer on the opening side of the concave portion.

Semiconductor device having a conductive layer with a cobalt tungsten phosphorus coating and a manufacturing method thereof

An electrolytic polishing apparatus for electrolytic-polishing a conductive film subject to formed on a substrate including a resistance measuring unit for measuring the resistance of the film. The electrolytic polishing apparatus may also include a termination point detecting portion for detecting a termination point of polishing by reading a variation of the resistance value measured by the resistance measuring unit, or a polishing control portion for terminating electrolytic polishing on the basis of the termination point of polishing detected by the termination point detecting portion.

Electrolytic polishing apparatus, electrolytic polishing method and wafer subject to polishing

A method of implementing an electrolytic polishing process against a wiring-material film by way of preventing excessive polishing or incomplete polishing caused by presence of differential steps locally generated in the objective wiring-material film. The inventive method comprises a step of forming a wiring-material film for burying recessed portions formed on an insulating film formed on a substrate via a plating process; a step of reducing a local differential step generated on the surface of the wiring-material film by way of preserving the wiring material film on the insulating film; and a final step of removing the wiring-material film deposited on the insulating film by way of preserving such wiring-material film deposited, solely inside of the recessed portions.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

The present invention is to provide a method for fabricating semiconductor devices capable of eliminating a height difference on a base member caused by a residual plating seed layer remained in a portion where an electrode comes into contact and is thus prevented from contacting with an electrolytic polishing fluid, where such height difference has been a problem in introducing the electrolytic polishing process into wafer process. The method comprises the steps of forming a plating seed layer on the base member; forming by the plating process a plated film on the plating seed layer in an area excluding the outer peripheral portion of the base member; polishing the plated film together with the plating seed layer by the electrolytic polishing process; and selectively removing the plating seed layer remaining on the outer peripheral portion of the base member.

Method for fabricating semiconductor devices

A stacked insulating film having an organic insulating film, and a carbon-containing silicon oxide film formed on the organic insulating film is disclosed. The carbon-containing silicon oxide film has a carbon content of 8 atom % to 25 atom %.

Low dielectric constant insulating films with laminated carbon-containing silicon oxide and organic layers

A process for producing a semiconductor device comprising an interlayer dielectric containing an organic film, which process comprises the step of forming on the interlayer dielectric a three-layer mask comprising a first mask, a second mask and a third mask in this order from the bottom, in which the first mask, the second mask and the third mask are made of materials different from one another, and the second mask is formed from a film made of a material which protects a film for forming the first mask during formation of the third mask. The process of the present invention is advantageous not only in that the second mask serves as a protecting film for the layers under the first mask during formation of the third mask, so that etching using a resist mask can be conducted during formation of the third mask, and further it becomes possible to perform a regeneration treatment for the resist mask while preventing the layers under the first mask from suffering a damage, but also in that, as a material for the first mask, the same material as that for the resist mask, for example, a carbon-containing material having a low dielectric constant can be used.

Process for fabricating a semiconductor device

In a manufacturing method of semiconductor device having a fluorine-containing SiN layer, an SiN layer excellent in the step coverage can be formed using as raw material an Si compound containing at least both nitrogen and fluorine, by virtue of an intermediate product which, during the formation of the above SiN layer, is formed, liable to polymerization and has fluidity. Moreover, as the above Si compound contains fluorine that is taken into the formation of the fluorine-containing SiN layer whose dielectric constant is lowered thereby, delay in circuit operation due to parasitic capacitances can be reduced.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideyuki Kito